---
type: "Bill"
title: "Georgia Municipal Courts Training Council; training hours completed by a municipal court judge in excess of those required may carry over to the following year; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 32 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Georgia Municipal Courts Training Council, so as to provide that training hours completed by a municipal court judge in excess of those required may carry over to the following year; to provide for limitations; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "HB 92"
citation: "Georgia HB 92 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barry Fleming", "Chuck Efstration", "Dave Belton", "Micah Gravley", "Roger Rutledge"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-01-29"
last_action: "2019-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d9707478-c1c7-4da8-a863-712984ec0072"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "60a7da824c28543c66838d95e021ebf605eb5603349881ded01787c1ec1c94e7"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
---

# Georgia HB 92 (2019_20) — Georgia Municipal Courts Training Council; training hours completed by a municipal court judge in excess of those required may carry over to the following year; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 32 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Georgia Municipal Courts Training Council, so as to provide that training hours completed by a municipal court judge in excess of those required may carry over to the following year; to provide for limitations; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB 92/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/184270.pdf)
2. **LC 28 9044ER/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/180030.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **171–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barry Fleming — primary (person)
- Chuck Efstration — primary (person)
- Dave Belton — primary (person)
- Micah Gravley — primary (person)
- Roger Rutledge — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-29** House Hopper
- **2019-01-30** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2019-02-05** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2019-02-08** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-13** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2019-02-13** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2019-02-14** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-28** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-07** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2019-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-07** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-07** Act 239 `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d9707478-c1c7-4da8-a863-712984ec0072`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).